Jennifer Gunter is the author of The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine.From her interview with NPR contributor and family physician Mara Gordon:
We doctors have had a strictly biomedical model for disease for a long time. It's a pretty recent development that we consider sex, relationships, stress and even sexism within our purview. Do you feel like your patients are eager for you to address those things?--Marshal Zeringue
I think that women appreciate knowing the forces that led us here. ... I want people to understand that the patriarchy has been everywhere. Medicine is part of everything. So of course medicine has patriarchy. ... I personally don't think that medicine is worse than anything else, but I do think that because medicine cares for people, we have the biggest duty to respond to it fast.
I think that a lot of women are really hungry for a woman physician to stand up and say, "Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait. I know about women's bodies. That's not going to fly, because I know the physiology."
What is the most absurd vaginal product that you've come across in your research?
Ozone getting blown into your vagina. It's...[read on]